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for young women, a lot of what we're doing in news, we use the technology that college women are using, speak to them through their professors and other students, and peers, and try to meet the more they are. >> on a similar front, marilinda garcia, what do you think could be done, what would be your advice to get more young women to run for office? >> i think programs like this are important because they showcase people liked karin do wonderful work, other elected officials around the country we are around in the country. it seems to me -- the most important thing for me, was that somebody actively encourages someone to take that step. there have been studies done about corporate involvement with women, all these other sectors, and what they always say is with women, despite all the things being equal -- they are qualified, intelligent, capable, accomplished just as much as their male counterparts, we tend to question our qualifications, the timing, all of these things, and not run for that promotion, not ask for the salary raise. i think there is an intersection with politics there,
for young women, a lot of what we're doing in news, we use the technology that college women are using, speak to them through their professors and other students, and peers, and try to meet the more they are. >> on a similar front, marilinda garcia, what do you think could be done, what would be your advice to get more young women to run for office? >> i think programs like this are important because they showcase people liked karin do wonderful work, other elected officials around...
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to tell us what to do. that is the kind of atmosphere that exists in egypt from the standpoint of the political atmosphere and among the audiences as well. >> i am going to say the same thing. i will comment on media content. we think it is not our role to judge content, but as much as we can whoever is involving in collecting and disbursing information for the national interest that interest the public, we would defend -- we do not think that justifies any dislike or oppression by any government. i would like to add to the point about the credibility of international actors within it is natural in those situations where there is a divide. you can see that in every aspect of public life. they believe that some of those actors that aligned themselves with both parties of egypt, and that there is no point on talking about that in a sense of taking sides. i think the advice that we try to share across the board is that just focus on principles. and one of the things that we think is people understand and appre
to tell us what to do. that is the kind of atmosphere that exists in egypt from the standpoint of the political atmosphere and among the audiences as well. >> i am going to say the same thing. i will comment on media content. we think it is not our role to judge content, but as much as we can whoever is involving in collecting and disbursing information for the national interest that interest the public, we would defend -- we do not think that justifies any dislike or oppression by any...
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but it protect us as a country. people need to get over the fact that the government is not trying to listen in on every phone call. it is not a republican strategy to put obama in a bad light. .t is frustrating people need to get over it and realize that national security is not always as easy as they think it is going to be. >> he mentioned what he had to assign to do the work that he did. the bradley manning incident and the edward snowden incident, will it change the way they do contractors as well? >> the senate is looking into this. there is a ballooning national security structure that comes from having more and more classified. so much information is classified, so there is a big push to declassify a lot of information. the government has the mentality of when in doubt, classified it. it is easier to keep information classified than to make the calculations to be classified something and get it wrong and cause all sorts of issues in the agency. we have seen members of congress said that over classification n
but it protect us as a country. people need to get over the fact that the government is not trying to listen in on every phone call. it is not a republican strategy to put obama in a bad light. .t is frustrating people need to get over it and realize that national security is not always as easy as they think it is going to be. >> he mentioned what he had to assign to do the work that he did. the bradley manning incident and the edward snowden incident, will it change the way they do...
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they failed us. we have looked to our congressmen to do that, and to your credit, 40 times you guys have come instead to get rid of it. in santee, definition of is that we keep doing the same thing again. that's not going to cut it. so this is our last chance, and it's more than just you know, who is going to win the political powerpoint if we shut down government. it's going to be what will the future of the country are look like in a decade because once the tentacles are there it's, it's, it's too late to been dialed it back. look at social security. i think that is worth that risk. i also don't think it would come to that. >> well, i think it would come to that. and -- [inaudible] >> if i can finish my point. i think it would come to that and i don't think it would work. look, we can do as you suggest, that's no problem passing the original bill without it. that's fine but it's not going anyplace in the united states senate. it will have an attached to it and it will come back. at that point i rea
they failed us. we have looked to our congressmen to do that, and to your credit, 40 times you guys have come instead to get rid of it. in santee, definition of is that we keep doing the same thing again. that's not going to cut it. so this is our last chance, and it's more than just you know, who is going to win the political powerpoint if we shut down government. it's going to be what will the future of the country are look like in a decade because once the tentacles are there it's, it's,...
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let us breathe, let us live our lives, let us be americans. >> we are spending the evening asking our viewers and listeners whether they find town halls helpful. as a congressman, do you find these meetings helpful? >> absolutely. we are unique because of how large our district is. we have 26 counties. there are a few congressmen and congress women that have a larger district than that, but the only way we can communicate effectively with everybody is through town hall meetings. there isn't a media source that andcan cover our entire district. we have to go to them. in our campaign, what we heard over and over again was people said the only time they ever saw their congressman was during the campaign cycles. that is not who we are. we want to make sure we are accountable to the individual and the only way we can be accountable is to make sure that we stand in front of them and hold ourselves accountable. host: this is your first opportunity. you were elected last november. how does this feel compared to campaigning? >> it probably feels a little bit better because we are in a situatio
let us breathe, let us live our lives, let us be americans. >> we are spending the evening asking our viewers and listeners whether they find town halls helpful. as a congressman, do you find these meetings helpful? >> absolutely. we are unique because of how large our district is. we have 26 counties. there are a few congressmen and congress women that have a larger district than that, but the only way we can communicate effectively with everybody is through town hall meetings....
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i don't know how far back they want to take us. they want to take us back. we want to talk about equal pay. let's talk about minimum wage. they want to dismantle social security and medicare. they want to if i go euroout how to make government not work. i tell you what, women and families will be left behind so fast it will make our head spin. the contrast is clear -- we don't intend to just talk about madam president. we intend to make it happen in 2016. >> there's a woman behind you. >> thank you. >> hello, there. i want to thank you all for putting on this event as well. senator mccaskill, i was in my living room cheering you on watching you -- so. >> i had tears in my eyes too. >> i have two comments and two questions. one leads to the other. i would like for you to speak more on what emily's list is doing in terms of mentorship. i ran in the last election psych until 2012. i'm silting here next to three women in this room who are wonderful friends and mentors and guides and teachers to me. i wouldn't be where i am without them. what are you doing with w
i don't know how far back they want to take us. they want to take us back. we want to talk about equal pay. let's talk about minimum wage. they want to dismantle social security and medicare. they want to if i go euroout how to make government not work. i tell you what, women and families will be left behind so fast it will make our head spin. the contrast is clear -- we don't intend to just talk about madam president. we intend to make it happen in 2016. >> there's a woman behind you....
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you can send us a tweet and use #firstladies. there are people wanting to know about martha jefferson. they are thinking, what happened. we talked about dolley madison's role. what happened to martha jefferson? >> she and jefferson were married for 10 years. she died in childbirth. she was a little or when she moved into the white house. she needed someone to oversee these parties when both sexes were pleasant. it was thought to be unseemly. he would ask dolley madison. >> he did not entertain very much. >> he entertained in a private way. he did not have large entertainments like washington or atoms or the madison spirit >> the capital was getting used to that. >> i think there was criticism. because he did not invite the women as often as he did the man. he preferred to have a lot of mail company and conduct actual political conversations. he also did away with all kinds of rank and protocol. he wanted everyone to be treated as equal. thought that was what it was all about. >> james madison and thomas jefferson were very close
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let us put it that way. i will take full accountability for that for our audience here and on the webcast. there are two things i would push you on. one is, how would you know if anyone had been harmed by abuse, given that the program is as secret as it is? among rumsfeld speaks about the unknown unknowns. how could anyone bring an action that would discover they have been disadvantaged in some way by this program? i will save the second question. >> if an american came forward and said, i all of a sudden lost my job. i was thrown in jail. i was questioned for 24 hours by fbi agents. i have no reason why this came up. i think it is because i came up mistakenly in this search, and i want to know about it. i think, in this great country of ours, with great reporters like you, us would have come out. >> there are a lot of people who lose a lot of jobs or are on the no-fly list, and all kinds of other things. if someone tells me as a reporter, i just know it is because i have been surveilled by a secret program
let us put it that way. i will take full accountability for that for our audience here and on the webcast. there are two things i would push you on. one is, how would you know if anyone had been harmed by abuse, given that the program is as secret as it is? among rumsfeld speaks about the unknown unknowns. how could anyone bring an action that would discover they have been disadvantaged in some way by this program? i will save the second question. >> if an american came forward and said,...
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could you tell us about that? >> he did appoint frederick douglass as the marshall of the city of washington, dc. he was very aware it was symbolic.a gesture on his part. he also had african-americans appointed to a number of positions in the south, mainly. the hayeses were also the first to have a black opera singer performed for them in the white house, and had some other black performers on their saturday performances in the white house. >> many people are interested. we talk about the fact she helped with the funds to finish the washington monument. you earlier mentioned her interest in orphans of the civil war. what other causes was she involved in? >> she was interested in mental health, as well. in terms of the sanitation and treatment that we today would consider to be shellshocked soldiers. she would care a lot about veterans' pensions, if they were disabled. there are wonderful records of when she would care for people, who were -- and this is before she was really a first lady, when she would still be i
could you tell us about that? >> he did appoint frederick douglass as the marshall of the city of washington, dc. he was very aware it was symbolic.a gesture on his part. he also had african-americans appointed to a number of positions in the south, mainly. the hayeses were also the first to have a black opera singer performed for them in the white house, and had some other black performers on their saturday performances in the white house. >> many people are interested. we talk...
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all of us on twitter, find us. but to me if we'll talk about leadership, tj, we should demand every form now to say what do you do in the committee on a regular basis? [applause] >> this mean i've got to get my cell phone number out? >> you famous. spank you are trying to get in there. go ahead. >> on kevin's first point, and i think this is important about two calls that come don't get mad. how many of us on the state are under 30? right. here's my point. right now we are sitting at the table. we are not kids like we're grown people. i'm a grown woman, right? >> we all have kids. >> i don't have kids but i'm over 30. i am 33. my point is it's time now for these kids table conversation. there are young people in high school who can be right up your talking to i don't even want to call them kids but i think it's really, really important is to make a brought organization. organizations, even with -- they are young ladies, young women who are the right hand of an organization we had come as terrific but there are also
all of us on twitter, find us. but to me if we'll talk about leadership, tj, we should demand every form now to say what do you do in the committee on a regular basis? [applause] >> this mean i've got to get my cell phone number out? >> you famous. spank you are trying to get in there. go ahead. >> on kevin's first point, and i think this is important about two calls that come don't get mad. how many of us on the state are under 30? right. here's my point. right now we are...
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but something is holding us back. something is holding us back. and to me, it's the group in congress. obstructionism and extremism that's holding us back and preventing too many americans from realizing the promise of america. look at the crew that graced your state in the past two months talking about shutting the government down again. their goal, they want to cause one big government traffic jam. the only problem -- they won't pay for the roads and bridges to get it out of it. there are two things that really bug me about this obstructionism. first, they seem to forget these are real people that would be affected by these moves. and even in the midst of the recovery, we all know people. the kid in cedar rapids who wants to become a teacher but can't afford college. the dad who lost his jobs at the kraft foods in mason city and wants to be retrained but can't quite get the right program so he gettings it skills to go back to work to support his family. or the family in waterloo who's working harder and harder and harder to pay that mortgage. i
but something is holding us back. something is holding us back. and to me, it's the group in congress. obstructionism and extremism that's holding us back and preventing too many americans from realizing the promise of america. look at the crew that graced your state in the past two months talking about shutting the government down again. their goal, they want to cause one big government traffic jam. the only problem -- they won't pay for the roads and bridges to get it out of it. there are two...
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and we've reelected you to not only represent us, but to fight for us. and because of that we need men and women that have courage, who are not looking for excuses. the heritage foundation, freedom works all have some arguments on why obamacare should be defunded. some my question to you is, have you sat down with any of these organizations to discuss this so that, perhaps, your opinion would be changed? if you have not, would you please consider doing so? >> i have dinner every tuesday night with jim demint, the head of heritage foundation. i live with mike lee and mark arubia, two people that are behind this. they claim that because you won't sign a letter you are for obamacare is utterly ridiculous. i don't disagree we need to get rid of obamacare. i disagree with the tactic. you don't set a strategy out to, in fact, try to accomplish something ignoring the couple of realistic facts. one is the only way you get rid of obamacare is with 67 votes in the u.s. senate. and two-thirds of the house of representatives. unless obama is this going to roll over
and we've reelected you to not only represent us, but to fight for us. and because of that we need men and women that have courage, who are not looking for excuses. the heritage foundation, freedom works all have some arguments on why obamacare should be defunded. some my question to you is, have you sat down with any of these organizations to discuss this so that, perhaps, your opinion would be changed? if you have not, would you please consider doing so? >> i have dinner every tuesday...
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they make it available to us and we will use it. that insecurity makes people think the al qaeda, well, how can we use them against our enemy. that is why we have the into related problem pakistan. so americans sometimes don't. >> i was worried before. now i'm really worried. i mean, you cannot be ambassador just described a country with a deep psychosis. it has nuclear weapons. the question that a generation of american policy makers has been asking is how we talked to a country that has this kind of psychosis, this anxiety about its relationship with america, its mission to put in the of. so many different ways have been tried. .. here is what i don't think we should do. i think we have engaged with pakistan and its best mudlick way so what happens is 1971 we have a relationship earlier during the cold war because pakistan's geography and the fact that they were essentially on our side made them very good partners there. when we wanted wet henry kissinger wanted to go into china they were useful to help him get into china secretly
they make it available to us and we will use it. that insecurity makes people think the al qaeda, well, how can we use them against our enemy. that is why we have the into related problem pakistan. so americans sometimes don't. >> i was worried before. now i'm really worried. i mean, you cannot be ambassador just described a country with a deep psychosis. it has nuclear weapons. the question that a generation of american policy makers has been asking is how we talked to a country that has...
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and as you can tell from the four of us sitting here, we have more years behind us than in front of us, and as we look at you, you have more years in front of you than behind you. and we need you to pick up the mantle and do what needs to be done to make it better for those coming behind you, as well as for yourselves. [applause] >> two questions. we have time for one or two questions. any students that want to pose a question to the panel? do not miss your opportunity to glean knowledge from these people. any students with questions for the panel? any students with questions for the panel? do not miss your opportunity. we will do this oprah style. bring it right here. there you go. >> thank you. did you ever feel like you were scared, like, were you scared when you decided to protest integration? what drove you to keep it going, and who is your motivation to keep going? and even though you could get hurt and all that other dangerous stuff -- >> great question. great question. >> we sensed if you ain't scared, you do not know what is going on. because there is something certainly that
and as you can tell from the four of us sitting here, we have more years behind us than in front of us, and as we look at you, you have more years in front of you than behind you. and we need you to pick up the mantle and do what needs to be done to make it better for those coming behind you, as well as for yourselves. [applause] >> two questions. we have time for one or two questions. any students that want to pose a question to the panel? do not miss your opportunity to glean knowledge...
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tell us what happened. tell us how and wher what we got wrong. she appointed tom pickering, and mike mueller, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, to nonpolitical centrist career civil servants. and they came back with a hard hitting report that said the state department had made lots of mistakes, that we were not set up to provide adequate security in benghazi for ambassador stevens and his colleagues that day, but they revealed no cover a. i don't see. i think most of the controversy is politically induced. [applause] >> so, the question is what is the role of secrecy and diplomacy? and extended from that, what are your feelings about mr. snowden and the relations between the united states and russia now that he has been granted -- >> i thought it was a friendly audience? [laughter] i know that, look, i will give you what i think. i may be wrong about all of this. i think there's a real tension, and always has been, but particularly in a globalized, highly integrated internet society of the type we have now. there's a tension between s
tell us what happened. tell us how and wher what we got wrong. she appointed tom pickering, and mike mueller, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, to nonpolitical centrist career civil servants. and they came back with a hard hitting report that said the state department had made lots of mistakes, that we were not set up to provide adequate security in benghazi for ambassador stevens and his colleagues that day, but they revealed no cover a. i don't see. i think most of the controversy...
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some of us will be in new orleans for her service tomorrow, all of us, and -- all of us send our mourning and prayers to their family, i hope it's a comfort to them that so many people loved lindy boggs sherrickentative scott will talk with alan grayson about nsc the correct word snowden. edwardt nsa leaker snowden. home movie shot inside the white house by president nixon's aides. >> when the first electronic computer was planned, it was estimated there could never be a market for more than two or three. today, there are more than 5000 computers. >> this is a replica of a machine. this is a machine designed in 1890 to do the census. the 1880 census took 10 years to complete. the government knew it was in big trouble because it was going to run out of time before the 1900 census would be due. so a way around this problem was to automate the problem and the way he solved this was to ask a bunch of questions, the usual and punched the responses into small pieces of cardboard. >> un-american artifacts, the first 2000 years of computing, sunday as part of american history tv every weekend on
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tell us about it? >> in an article on the profile a couple of months ago, in my office, i have a wide sofa, the truth sofa, because, so often, members will come in and tell you exactly you -- what they are thinking. when they get in there and you are looking i to eye, one-on- one, you get the real story. you get the real story while -- why they support this policy or why they do not. the point being that is what we have got to do as a party to engage people one-on-one. i think about my own particular district. when you are talking about minority outreach, my district is 54% democrat, 30 four percent republican, 12% independent. about 25% of that african- american. i carried the african-american vote each time i run. i did it by going one-on-one. i had a relationship there. a third-generation where i am from. they were not voting for some unknown republican. they were voting for wayne's son, or grandson. that made a big difference. we need to make sure we are going out and talking to people one-on-one,
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for us. and if we're a part of the creation of that along with our broadband colleagues, then this is going to go a lot more quickly. but if they put it together, put it out, it's wrong, it's got to go back, this could take a long, long time. i mean, when you think back on the analog to digital transition that i was a party to, that didn't affect all that much p repacking. this will affect 60%, perhaps, of the broadcast stations in this country. a huge job. big job. so it's important to get it right in the beginning. >> host: and finally, senator smith, last week on this program senator mark pryor, who's the chair of a commerce subcommittee, we asked him about whether or not the '96 telecom act needs to be updated and overhauled, and he expressed some reservations about that because it would open this can of worms, etc., etc., etc. from the nab's point of view -- >> guest: i suppose be, i never voted for a perfect law. they were always the product of compromise and trade-offs, and there's not
for us. and if we're a part of the creation of that along with our broadband colleagues, then this is going to go a lot more quickly. but if they put it together, put it out, it's wrong, it's got to go back, this could take a long, long time. i mean, when you think back on the analog to digital transition that i was a party to, that didn't affect all that much p repacking. this will affect 60%, perhaps, of the broadcast stations in this country. a huge job. big job. so it's important to get it...
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you can send us a tweet, make sure you use the #firstladies. you can also post a question or comment on our facebook page. we have a conversation already started there. or you can phone us here are our phone lines. if you live in the eastern or central time zones 202-585-3880, or out west, 202-585-3881. we'll get for your comments and questions in a minute. our guests referred to letters written to jane pierce's son. we're going to learn about that next. we're going to travel to the new hampshire historical society which holds the papers of the pierce family and see two important letters in understanding of the will the story of jane pierce. >> this letter was written by benny pierce who was 11 years old. from andover, massachusetts, where he was visiting with his cousins in june of 1852. at the time the franklin pierce was nominated for president at democratic national convention in baltimore. franklin and his mother had been in boston waiting for news of the nomination. and benny was staying with relatives in andover. benny, knowing how much
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us. please welcome the ceo of the king center, bernice. >> good afternoon, everybody. i know it's late and i have two minutes they told me. but i first want to thank the national urban league for the tremendous work that they have been doing over a century. and we could not have made its had not been for the urban league. so i want to thank them to the time honored to be here this afternoon a part of the coalition that has been planning the 50th anniversary celebration. and i wanted to just say something that i say quite often when we look at the convergence of so many things that happened this year the mirror that happened in 63 and in many respects it makes some of us feel like we have been setbacks it may be true but it may not be true as well. it could be a tremendous opportunity in a set up for us to really organize and mobilize and really create the momentum that happened in 63. but my mother had a quote where she set struggle is a never-ending process. freedom is never really run.
us. please welcome the ceo of the king center, bernice. >> good afternoon, everybody. i know it's late and i have two minutes they told me. but i first want to thank the national urban league for the tremendous work that they have been doing over a century. and we could not have made its had not been for the urban league. so i want to thank them to the time honored to be here this afternoon a part of the coalition that has been planning the 50th anniversary celebration. and i wanted to...
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when you give us a call, tell us what you really riding the tell us what the story is really about. i had a reporter called up and asked me a question about standards for technology. okay, why did you want to know about the standards in x-ray technology? welcome he was writing about standards of x-ray technology. he was writing about how they're fighting industry. he was using that as an example. because in our interaction he finally opened up and told me what he was was writing it i was able to give them an enormous story on standards and how they are applied, and how they are set. instead of just michael focusing on the initial question, which was writing about the x-ray. so tell us what you'r what you y writing about and we can help you better. and don't automatically assume that the government is evil and we are hiding stuff. because that is not the case. journalists have a code of ethics. trust but verify, but also not to violate the truth. just as welcome the government public affairs folks, believe it or not we have a code of ethics, and that code of ethics from the national
when you give us a call, tell us what you really riding the tell us what the story is really about. i had a reporter called up and asked me a question about standards for technology. okay, why did you want to know about the standards in x-ray technology? welcome he was writing about standards of x-ray technology. he was writing about how they're fighting industry. he was using that as an example. because in our interaction he finally opened up and told me what he was was writing it i was able...
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there are some of us here old enough to remember we used to be able to walk across and have lunch in nogales and walked back. think about doing that today. you bring up problems on the border, and with this surveillance capability, we will be able to keep people back, and then we will be able to send these teams out. finally, the coyotes. we know these coyotes are the worst scum-of-the-earth people, and they are bringing people into tucson and up to phoenix and putting them in drop houses where they hold them in the most unspeakable conditions and then hold them for ransom that their families back in mexico. it is an argument for getting our borders secure, but also an argument for us to address the entire issue of illegal immigration. i thank you for your passion. yes, sir. >> [indiscernible] >> go ahead. >> you are not answering why and what we are going to do with border patrol agents. [indiscernible] >> every citizen of this country has the benefit of innocence of proven guilty. that is a fundamental quality of our democracy. there should be complete and thorough investigation, c
there are some of us here old enough to remember we used to be able to walk across and have lunch in nogales and walked back. think about doing that today. you bring up problems on the border, and with this surveillance capability, we will be able to keep people back, and then we will be able to send these teams out. finally, the coyotes. we know these coyotes are the worst scum-of-the-earth people, and they are bringing people into tucson and up to phoenix and putting them in drop houses where...
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president, send us social -- send us a mandate down from the grand chapter and tell us what, point us in a direction and send it out and let us go out and do it. i've been doing stuff with the fraternity and working with the zeta's for years and he's. so send us out something to do. give us some direction. secondly, i want to mention is, in 1963 our kids, when black boys are coming out of high school, the folks on the local board were there to give us our -- we were conscripted to the army. and the local board just ripped our families apart. took our youngsters and send them off to vietnam. and now, it's not the local board anymore, but it's the courthouse we are sending our kids off to prison. part of the mandate that i'm going to ask for is what of it going to do with that great mass of people who are incarcerated, who are coming out of the prison, and having nothing to do? and how are we going to help them? and i think that that's a focus because that's a lot of people that we can conscripted to do things that will be positive in the community. >> let me respond to what he said. th
president, send us social -- send us a mandate down from the grand chapter and tell us what, point us in a direction and send it out and let us go out and do it. i've been doing stuff with the fraternity and working with the zeta's for years and he's. so send us out something to do. give us some direction. secondly, i want to mention is, in 1963 our kids, when black boys are coming out of high school, the folks on the local board were there to give us our -- we were conscripted to the army. and...
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it's an opportunity to use these technology skills to help us find and put us in contact with families to have veterans were displaced persons during world war ii that have things that in the years that i going to come coming this the rest of our world war ii veterans, lost my dad five years ago, the things that are hanging on walls and in basements and attics. it will all have a new owner. a great risk to these things that may be in foreign languages or old, musty documents. this is the chance to help with the tip of the iceberg were getting ready. help these things give back to the people that they belong to. so it's a great moment. for that reason we are spending a lot of time with the work on the foundation. the film coming up. all be headed back to berlin. when i'm done with the book tour . doing whenever i'm asked to do by the people involved with that really the work the focus is now on the foundation. the writing of the book is something that i do. the foundation, the not-for-profit entity is out there to try and help people. we don't charge people anything. we can't do everyth
it's an opportunity to use these technology skills to help us find and put us in contact with families to have veterans were displaced persons during world war ii that have things that in the years that i going to come coming this the rest of our world war ii veterans, lost my dad five years ago, the things that are hanging on walls and in basements and attics. it will all have a new owner. a great risk to these things that may be in foreign languages or old, musty documents. this is the chance...
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it forces us to think about history can you tell us what his next? >> i am interested in the thousands of orders since the beginning of civilization. but what gives the romans to say that that is not enough. why do they say that is it. they are frightening concepts. i'm looking at the cases that talk about the existential destruction with all of these residents and we are looking at nuclear iran. we are looking at the exit central and of all things. >> host: thank you for your contribution. >> guest: thank you for having me today. >> booktv's book club returns next month with this town, to parties and a funeral plus plenty of parking. read the book and engage on her facebook page and look for daily book club hosts to get the conversation going, including links to interviews of the author and reviews of the author from the booktv archives. >> during chuck hagel's news conference on monday with his chinese counterpart commenters asked about the situation in egypt. you can see the entire event online at c-span.org. here is some of what he said. >> i kno
it forces us to think about history can you tell us what his next? >> i am interested in the thousands of orders since the beginning of civilization. but what gives the romans to say that that is not enough. why do they say that is it. they are frightening concepts. i'm looking at the cases that talk about the existential destruction with all of these residents and we are looking at nuclear iran. we are looking at the exit central and of all things. >> host: thank you for your...
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we used to have the right of boycotts. we used to use boycotts to make a difference. political rights and policies are all well and good, but what america listens to is where money is spent and where it is not spent, and if there's anything we should learn from the civil rights movement, with the busboy cots and economic boycotts is we have power. if we have a dime in our pocket, we have power as to where we spend that dime. it's time for us to rebuild, reclaim our communities. .. [applause] >> so for this next section what i'm going to do is we have a limited amount of time is i'm going to start with you on the end and we will go this way. let's use the table mike so we don't have the problem of getting up and down. before i turn it over to you one of the things that i think is so important to things i heard they were so important as idea of our rights of white cotton process to make our voices heard and moral monday and how important it is then. that's important because that rightness politicians. that frightens them into thinking oh my goodness i might be held acco
we used to have the right of boycotts. we used to use boycotts to make a difference. political rights and policies are all well and good, but what america listens to is where money is spent and where it is not spent, and if there's anything we should learn from the civil rights movement, with the busboy cots and economic boycotts is we have power. if we have a dime in our pocket, we have power as to where we spend that dime. it's time for us to rebuild, reclaim our communities. .. [applause]...